Sentences with phrase «federal study of»

A federal study of sea otters in Prince William Sound, Alaska, where the Exxon Valdez supertanker spilled around 30,000,000 gallons of oil about 25 years ago (the second largest spill after the Deepwater Horizon disaster) has concluded that the otters have returned to pre-spill numbers.

Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure — Gulf Coast Study See our previous post: March 13, 2008: Stealth release of major federal study of Gulf Coast climate change transportation impacts

The latest federal study of ESC shows that the technology reduces single - car fatal crashes by more than a third.

It is thus unfortunate that the projected federal study of charters, unless quickly redesigned, will focus primarily on middle schools.

He serves as a principal investigator for the federal study of the implementation of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, including its provisions related to accountability and efforts to improve low - performing schools.

A recent federal study of the much - watched voucher program in Washington, D.C., for example, showed that using a voucher boosted a student's chances of graduating from high school.

So it is with the new federal study of charter schools.

A federal study of 74 waterways used for drinking water in 25 states found 53 had traces of one or more pharmaceuticals.

The proposal was so toxic in the legislature last year that the state Senate voted unanimously to block the state Department of Transportation from spending $ 300,000 to join a federal study of the issue with four other states.

Rep. Lee Zeldin announced a new proposal that would suspend the sale and marketing of Plum Island to private buyers and require an additional federal study of the sale.

They include working to get a federal study of whether or not to build big storm - surge barriers.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Toxicology Program — a government program that coordinates federal studies of chemicals» adverse effects — warns that BPA exposure may lead to abnormal development in infants and the Canadian government last year banned its use in baby bottles.

As I discussed a few years ago, federal studies of the program found it not only largely ineffectual, but possibly even a negative influence.

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This hunch prompted the federal government in March to earmark $ 500,000 for Statistics Canada to study the extent of foreign real estate purchasing and what effect it has on the market.

A 2016 study examining 78 years of federal minimum wage hikes in the U.S. (between 1938 and 2009) showed no correlation between those increases and job losses, even in sectors most affected by such policies.

No comprehensive study has yet been done to estimate the impact of a $ 15 an hour federal minimum wage on jobs.

In a 2012 study, Gerry Angevine and Vanadis Oviedo of the Fraser Institute described «outdated regulatory processes and procedures, unnecessary duplication of federal and provincial government project reviews, and an unwieldy environmental review process.»

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty first commissioned his own study, authored by University of Calgary tax - policy expert Jack Mintz, then in March initiated a public consultation process, by which time talk of a government - run supplemental pension plan, whether regional or national, began to fade.

A 2013 Federal Trade Commission study found that 20 percent of consumers identified errors on their reports that might affect their score, and 5 percent had an error significant enough that it could result in their paying higher loan rates.

A study that analyzed tax data from 2012 to 2016 found 17 percent of taxpayers faced a federal tax bill.

According to a recent study, impact investing in the US would not exist without the support of and partnership with the federal government through grants, loans, and guarantees.

The green coffee bean manufacturer, Applied Food Sciences Inc., agreed to pay a $ 3.5 million settlement after the Federal Trade Commission charged the company with using the results of the flawed study to make baseless claims, the agency announced in September.

According to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, as a group self - employed women differ from self - employed men in significant ways.

Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

It does note that there are «studies» that show «raising the federal minimum wage — which has not changed since 2009 — to just $ 10.10 per hour would pull more than half of the nation's working poor out of poverty.»

The Federal Reserve studied the effects of weather on retail sales in 2000, and found that, in general, monthly fluctuations in sales caused by weather were smoothed out on a quarterly basis.

Sumit Agarwal, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, studied the link between cognitive abilities and what he calls «suboptimal behaviour.»

Much work needs to be done to help ensure female entrepreneurs can fully contribute to the Canadian economy, according to the study released Wednesday and co-funded by the Bank of Montreal, the federal government, Carleton University and the Beacon Agency.

And the same article referenced a similarly startling fact from a 2015 study by the Federal Reserve: «47 percent of respondents said they either could not cover a $ 400 emergency expense or would have to sell something or borrow money.»

«Many federal integration programs are not working particularly well,» says Naomi Alboim, a fellow at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.

A spokesman for Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi echoed that objective, adding the federal government had also commissioned a study of how much it would cost to keep the existing 56 - year - old bridge open to traffic beyond 2018.

He said, «If we have a large number of complaints the federal government should study that and consider taking action.»

In the last federal budget, Natural Resources Canada was allocated $ 2.5 million over the next two years to study regional clean energy cooperation, with the aim of identifying «the most promising electricity infrastructure projects with the potential to achieve significant greenhouse gas reductions.»

Between 2010 and 2012, taxpayers in the Peach State claimed about 36 % of all federal tax deductions for easements — despite having only 2.5 % of the nation's land under easement, according to a May 2017 report that Looney, the former Treasury official, published for the Brookings Institution, where he's now a senior fellow in economic studies.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Now those of you who have studied the process of federal budget making might interject that Uncle Sam doesn't do much in the first place to fund kittens.

To conduct this work, GAO analyzed household financial data, including retirement savings and income, from the Federal Reserve's 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, reviewed academic studies of retirement savings adequacy, analyzed retirement - related questions from surveys, and interviewed retirement experts about retirement readiness.

A new study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests that bondholders still don't believe the government would ever let the firms collapse into bankruptcy — after a decade of efforts by regulators to convince them otherwise.

Federal student loans of all types are included in the FAFSA review, as well as work - study and grant opportunities.

Jaison R. Abel is an economist and Richard Deitz a research officer in the Microeconomic and Regional Studies Function of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

In another important study, Pu Shen, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas, tracked the performance of 5 market - timing portfolios.

2See Macroprudential Policy: Case Study from a Tabletop Exercise, Tobias Adrian, Patrick de Foutnouvelle, Emily Yang, and Andrei Zlate, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report No. 742, September 2015.

A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond revealed that «few merchants are found to reduce prices or debit restrictions as debit costs decrease.»

A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond found that the Durbin Amendment is not working as Congress intended and has led to several unintended consequences.

CATA, working with 6 other major industry associations, 5 federal agencies, 4 provincial agencies, 2 universities and several NGOs as key partners, has just completed a detailed study of the challenges that must be addressed.

Only recently did the Department of Finance release a study on the long - term sustainability of federal government finances — a study that had been promised in 2007.

To help the bottom line, the federal government promises to review departmental spending to find savings and to scour its cupboard to see if it should sell off federal assets, and will continue to study the possible privatization of Canadian airports.

On an individual basis, they have had the threat of deportation lifted from them, allowing them to stay and to work or study, to obtain driver's licenses, and to qualify for some other federal benefits.

But according to a recent C.D. Howe study, the federal government could run a permanent structural deficit of 1 % of GDP ($ 20 billion) and still maintain a stable debt ratio of 25 %, which happens to be the Conservative government's target for 2022.

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.